Executive summary
How to embed culture across Ealing's seven towns
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Activate libraries to bring people together through culture.
Showcase local cultural narratives through new cross-art form cultural centre.
Seed a new festival celebrating local role in global film industry.
Build resilience, scale and profile of festivals and celebrations with street-level infrastructure. Enable the delivery of world class culture across the borough by securing facilities for development and production.
Attract a major institutional affiliate performance venue in new regional park.
Develop a coordinated roadmap to guide future investment in the music ecosystem. Deliver a new live music venue with co-located rehearsal and education space.
Secure funding for cultural infrastructure projects.
Embed cultural infrastructure in planning and regeneration.
Eight hallmark projects should be delivered as short, medium and long term interventions to grow Ealing's cultural offer and deliver opportunities for residents.
Hallmark projects for culture in Ealing's seven towns
Each of Ealing's seven towns - Acton, Ealing Town, Hanwell, Northolt, Greenford, Perivale and Southall - has a unique offer and opportunity to raise its cultural profile. Culture can also be embedded in existing council initiatives, such as emerging plans for a regional park. Based on this, eight hallmark projects offer key opportunities to respond to principles and build upon each town's offer over the lifespan of the cultural infrastructure plan. Short term projects are those which the council can initiate itself. These include projects in council-owned assets. Medium term projects are those where the council will have some agency, but will need to convene and enable external partners. Long term projects are larger scale projects which will require establishing long-standing partnerships and attracting investment.
over the lifespan of the cultural infrastructure plan. Short term projects are those which the council can initiate itself. These include projects in council-owned assets. Medium term projects are those where the council will have some agency, but will need to convene and enable external partners. Long term projects are larger scale projects which will require establishing long-standing partnerships and attracting investment.